So I hung out at the hotel in the morning and in the afternoon I took Dad to see a movie...
I didn't figure he'd follow it completely but I hoped he'd at least get the whole Darth Vader transformation thing.
Pre-movie conversation:
"You remember Darth Vader, right?" "Um, yeah." "Well this is how he got to be a bad guy." "Ah."
Post-movie conversation:
Me: "You remember Princess Leia, right? I was her for Halloween in first grade?"
Dad: "No.... no, I don't remember that." [traumatic, but that's another post]
Me: "Big buns on the sides of her head? Long white dress?"
Dad: "Ummmmmm.... no."
Me: "Well, she was one of the babies at the end of the film."
Dad: "Ah."
[silence]
Dad: "I think I did see some of the other [Star Wars films], because—that monkey guy, or whatever he was, I remembered him."
Me: "Monkey????"
Dad: "Yeah, you know, the monkey."
I first think of the weird animal that Obi Wan Kenobi rides around in the big sinkhole. Can't be. General Grievous? He crawls around a bit but he's more bug-like. Grasping for straws, I briefly consider that he's referring to Obi Wan himself (after all he's increasingly hirsute here) before realizing...
Me: "Oh, Chewbacca!!! The big, furry guy?"
Dad: "Right, right, that one."
Me (pleased): "Yeah, that's right—wow, good memory, he was hardly even on the screen this time, but yeah, he was in the other films."
[pause]
Me: "And anyway you remember Darth Vader, right? The guy in black?"
Dad: "Ummmmmm....I don't know."
OK, fine, let's not push it.
2 comments:
>>Mom made it clear that I was irritating her and she didn't want me to come over at all today.<<
This reminded me of one of Aunt Eva's stays in the hospital, long ago. I asked my mother for a status report and she said, "Well, she must be getting better. She's bitching about the color of the curtains in her room."
I'm going to see if I have a picture of you lying around onto which I can graft Princess Leia's hair. Better yet, you have a photo of you in that costume?
god, I hope I do. I meant to ask Mom about it today. that was a formative moment in my life. but again, another post.
by the way, if you image-google "princess leia," you can see how many, many, many other people have (1) grafted their faces onto the bun & blaster look, and (2) dressed up in the gold bikini, for fun and/or professionally.
Also, many people have named their white cats "Princess Leia," but apparently, "Chewbacca" is a more popular name for horses. Go figure.
Regarding the irritation factor--yes, she was well enough to be irritated by everything on Monday. See under "heavily sedated," below.
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